About Tracy Ragan
Tracy Ragan
CEO and Co-founder
Tracy is a recognized expert in software supply chain security and DevSecOps, with a focus on complex, decoupled architecture. She has served on the OpenSSF Governing Board (2022-23) as a General Member Representative, contributing to its Governing Board Committee and the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) Technology Oversight Committee. A founding board member of both the CDF and the Eclipse Foundation, Tracy is currently the Executive Director of the Ortelius Open Source project, a vulnerability management solution for open-source software.
Named one of the top 100 DevOps visionaries by TechBeacon, Tracy is a sought-after speaker at major industry events, including CDCon, Open Source Summit, and CloudBees DevOps World. She also hosts TechStrong Women TV, celebrating the achievements of women in tech, and regularly participates in expert panels for organizations like JFrog, TechStrong, and the Linux Foundation. Additionally, Tracy has been quoted in numerous technical publications on DevOps and open-source security.
Prior to her current role, Tracy was the COO and co-founder of OpenMake Software, a build acceleration and audit tool used by over 400 enterprise development teams. She was also honored as a Women In Technology (WIT) Honoree for her contributions to the DevOps field
Tracy on DevSecOps Intelligence
Podcast and Interviews
- SBOMs and Cloud-Native Environments
- Digital Anarchist – DevOps Unbound
- TechStrong Women TV
- Open Source Summit TechStrong Interview
- Transformation in 10 – Tricentis Podcast
- Shiptalk by Harness hosted by Ravi Lachhman
- CDF Podcast – Configuration Management
- Open Source Underdogs
- Tracy on the Daily Drive Part 1
- Tracy on the Daily Drive Part 2
- OpenSSF Board Member Spotlight
- Shiptalk – Finding Your Tribe – Harness.io
- Pure Performance Podcast – What is Data-Driven Continuous Delivery aka CDv2 with Tracy Ragan
- TechBeacon – DevOps 100: Do Ops like a boss
- Software Delivery Leadership Forum 2020
- TechstrongTV September 2020
- On the modern architecture shift – KubeCon 2019
- Tracy Ragan talks about K8s Pipeline with Alan Shimel, Digital Anarchist, DevOps World 2019
Speaking Engagements
- Keynote Address – Open Source Summit -2023
- Emporous and Ortelius – Open Source Summit 2023
- Panel – What’s New with SBOMs – OpenSSF Days 2023
- AI Assisted Development – TechstrongCon 2023
- Action and Impact Panel: How OpenSSF and Industry Improve Open-Source Security – OpenSSF 2022
- TechStrong Cloud Native Days 2022 – Supply Chain Security and Microservices
- CDCon 2022 – Supply Chain and the Ortelius Catalog
- Taking GitOps Automation to the Next Level – KubeCon GitOpsCon
- DevOps.com Predict 2021 – Keynote Panelist
- DevOps.com Predict 2021 – Cloud Native Panelist
- “A Guide to Cloud Native Continuous Delivery” – AWS Marketplace January 2021
- “Three Basic Truths About Microservices” – Global SkillUps Days Festival 2020
- “Exploring the CD Landscape to build your ultimate pipeline with Tracy Ragan“, CD Summit – KubeCon 2019
- “Pivoting from Monolithic to Microservices”, DevOps World 2019